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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Mountain dweller

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beirgin or Ó Meirgin, an altered form of Ó hAimheirgin ‘descendant of Aimheirgin’, a personal name of early Irish mythology and historical tales, perhaps composed of the elements amhra ‘wonderful’ + gin ‘birth’.
  • Swedish : variant of Berg, with the addition of -in, a common suffix of Swedish family names.

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